The Daily News; Souvenir of the Bournemouth Centenary Fetes, July 6-16, 1910.

[London]: Te Daily News, 1910. Large (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches) souvenir card that was sold at the famous Bournemouth aviation meet of 1910. It is almost entirely taken up with photographic portraits of aviators at the Meet; Paulhan, Farman, Rolls, Graham-White, Grace and Cockburn. Also there are two portraits of city officials and three scenic views of the town. Unfortunately this meeting was also the place where Charles Rolls (a director and co-founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd.) crashed and died in his Wright brothers airplane (his image is on the right side of the card)., His Wright flyer was built in England rather than by the American Wright company, and his crash was attributed to the inferior construction. In 1910 Bournemouth was celebrating its centenary, and as part of the festivities held an aviation meeting at Southbourne Aerodrome where 19 competitors could compete for cash prizes. Categories included longest flight, speed, altitude and slowest speed. The world speed record at the time was just 47 mph. The prize for the leading flyer at Britain’s first international aviation meeting went to Leon Morane flying a Bleriot aeroplane. This meet also saw Britain’s first fatal flying accident involving a powered aircraft.